It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.